Committee of MPs, former judges to examine firing of 2 National Microbiology Lab scientists
Government House Leader Mark Holland announced the makeup of the committee Wednesday. Four MPs will have access to briefings and other documents on the matter: Iqra Khalid from the Liberals, John Williamson from the Conservatives, René Villemure from the Bloc Québecois and Heather McPherson from the NDP. All four have substitutes from their respective parties.
Three former senior judges will join them to act as arbitrators, and will have final say on what information can be made public. The judges are Ian Binnie, Eleanor Dawson and Marshall Rothstein. Binnie and Rothstein are former Supreme Court of Canada judges. "Where there is redacted information that the committee believes ought to be made public, the panel of arbiters ... will determine how that information could be disclosed more widely without compromising national security, national defence or international relations, or any other public or private interest,"Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, left, and her husband Keding Cheng, right, were escorted out of the lab in July 2019. Their dismissals were announced in January 2021.
The committee will examine the case of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng. Qiu and Cheng were both scientists working at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, which is run by the Public Health Agency of Canada . Qiu and Cheng were escorted out of the lab in July 2019 before PHAC announced their dismissal in January 2021. The RCMP was investigating the pair at the time, but neither they nor PHAC have provided a reason for their dismissal or the investigation.
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